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Re: Another system management tool to disappear.



On Saturday 29 August 2015 09:49:55 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Saturday 29 August 2015 09:24:52 Reco wrote:
> >  Hi.

[...]

> > Kind of old-fashioned for my taste (I'd use 'sudo -u' in the first
> > place), but perfectly sane approach.
>
> ISTR I read that someplace, tried it, but it needed a root password,
> which does not exist on any of these machines, hence the "two stage"
> approach to getting the job done.

So I just now played some more, and did make it work.  Its an option that 
ought to be better explained in the man page.

Thank you, I learned something today.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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